Instructive musical puzzle.



1.. H. MOORLSR; kNSIRUGHVE MUSICAL PUZZLE.

Patented July 11, 1916.

NVENTOR.

L jij@ v and aims to impress upon the mind the' proper location of musical characters withY Y l plate. v l

may therefore be used. The number Yof slotsy JOSEPH HENRY MOORE, sa., oEsEwrckLEY, PENNSYLVANIA;

Tov all whom t may concern:

Be it lmown that IJosE1 1-I HENRY MOORE,

Sr., residing at Sewickley, in the countyV of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Instructive Musical -Puzzle, of which the following isa' specification.

My invention relates to instructive puzzles relation to the staff, by means of an interesting and amusing pastime. I attain this object by the device shown in the'accompanying drawing7 in which- Figure l, is a front-view of my device. Fig. 2, is a rear view of my device. Fig. `3), is a section along line R R of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is* an explanatory illustration showing the notes on the staff, with vtheirnotation by letter, both on the bass and treble` clefs.

In both Fig. l and Fig. 2, M is a plate of resisting material such as smooth cardboard, Celluloid, or metal, provided with a longitudinal slot K K and with a' transverse slot VL L, or with two transverse slots L Land S S. The choice betweenfone or two trans verse slots is dictated by mechanical reasons only.4 Slot L L may easily be made long enough to accommodate a suiiicient number of button-sliders to mixV the rest of them in any desired manner, but a slotl of this length may lead to an inconvenient shape of the An additional transverse slot S S does not aifect the spirit of my invention. In these slots I arrange a number of button 'shaped sliders, overlappingthe slot on both sides of the plate, so that they can beislid-f" along4 in the slots, but cannotfbe removed from `the, plate. These sliders aremarked G, B, D, F, A, C, E, G, B, D, F in Fig. 1, and A, C, E, G, B,VD, F, A,"C, E, blank, in

Fig. 2. -I do not wish to limit myself to the mechanical construction of these sliders.

Each of them may be in two parts, the front.

head having a projection screwing into the rear head, or, they may be integral, being 1nserted from one side, and the projecting part j serted ,through a large opening N which is later on closed up. Each slider representsv a musical note, whose proper location relative-to the staff is indicated in Fig. 4, both lINsrEUcfrrvE `ivmsrcAE rUzzLE. y f n y ratentedaaly' 1.1, 191e. Application filed December 6, 191.5. Serial No. 65,280. Y' L' v `:spending letter of thealphabet. The longi- TED 'STATES 1 ma tudinalslot and thel transverse slot or slots, A' are of such length compared'to the size of the sliders, thatthe sliders may bepushed around and maybe thoroughly mixed up.

' The musicalA charactersfmigh't a-ll'be vrepresented on .onel side'ofthe plate, but the large number thenrequired would make a very long'and unhandyplate. For thatreason I lprefer to use both sides ofthe plate andtoflet Y eachA slider represent two different notesi- In 4selections maybemade.v Oneside may represent the notes `of the bass clef and the other sidevmay represent notesof the treble clef,

or else, one'side may' 're'presentlthenotes Yon assigningtwofnotes to each slider different s the' linesl andl theother si de may represent the notes .in the spaces between the lines. I

preferred form I'use-elevensliders, marked respectively G, B, D, F, AgC, E,LG, B', D, F on the front side of the-plate, Fig. l, and

the rear side of the plate, Fig. '2. 'On each l side `I `mark the lines of the staif both for the Fig'. 4.' The sliders may be 'shoved around,-

and the puzzle consistsin placingl them in the fposition marked forjthem.` Their .proper location-'is also used by me to impress upon the mind-the notation Vof the musical'characters above Vand below the regulan4 staff in both "clefs, on what is known as thev leger lines and spaces. In order to obtain Vthis end, I usethe fact that theJ letters repeat themselves in the same rotation in vboth clefs, and lboth above and below the staves. Proper places for the sliders mightbe provided outside of the stafll i lines in the regular slot, but such an arrangement ywould be too'jclumsy. For this reason I prefer to mark the regular-notation of the musical characters on Vtheplate, as: shown at X X and Y Y, Figs.l l and 2, and to coordinate the location of these characters with' Vv'the letters by printing them in line,1as sho-wn, f so-that each musical character stands directly in linev with the fixed letters, such as, (33B,

D, F, A, C, E, G, B, D, F on one side of the plate, Fig. 1, and A, C, E, G, B,D, F, A, C, ll on the other side of the plate, Fig. 2.

. I claim as new and I desire Letters Patent for* Y l. A plate of resisting material on which are marked the lines of the musicalxstafl; letters to denote the characters on the lines and in the spaces, and sliders with the same letters, movable in a slot and in a transverse slot.

2. A plate showing on each side the five lines of the staff at least twice, once for the treble clef and once for the bass clef, and fixed letters denoting on one side the characters on the lines of the staff, and on the other side the characters in the spaces' be tween the lines, said letters in the position belonging to the musical characters which they denote. f

,3. A plate with the five lines of the musical sta'i marked twice in one direction yon each side of the plate, and twice in a direction normal to the first direction, also on each side of the plate; Vmusical characters on the seco-nd set of lines, and fixed letters denoting these musical characters as well as the musical lcharacters* belonging to thefirst 'set of stafl' lines.

4. A plate, showing` on each side the five lines ofthe musical staff twicein one direction, a longitudinal slot in said plate, button like sliders in said slot and guided by said slot, said sliders adapted to register with the lines of the staff, fixed letters on the lines on one side of the plate, and between the lines on the other side of the plate, said letters denoting the musical character of the lines and spaces in the location of the letters, and letters on the button Vlike sliders corresponding with the fixed letters.

5. A plate, showing on each side'the live lines ofthe musical staf twice in one direction, a longitudinal slot in said plate, button like sliders in said slot and guided by Copies of this patent may be obtained for said slot, said sliders adapted to register with the lines. of the staff, fixed letters on the lines on one side of the plate, and between thc lines on the other side of the plate,

said letters denoting the musical characters of the lines and spaces in the location of the letters, and letters on the button like sliders corresponding with the fixed letters, additional staii lines in a direction normal to that of the first mentioned staff lines, and musical characters above and below the second set of staff lines corresponding with the fxedletters.

6. A plate with a longitudinal slot, and a transverse slot, buttony like sliders, marked with the letters of musical characters or notes and letters on the plate denoting these same musical characters in the correct position relative to the musical staff, substantially as described.

7. A plate with a longitudinal slot, and with a Vplurality of transverse slots, button like sliders, marked with the letters of musiu cal characters or notes and letters on the plate Ydenoting thesesame musical characters in the correct position relative to the musical staff, substantially as described.

8. A plate with a longitudinal slot, anda transverse slot, button like sliders in said slots, said ysliders carrying letters denoting one set of musical characters on vone side, and letters denoting another set of musical characters on the' other side.

9. A plate `with a longitudinal slot, and with a plurality of transverse slots, button like sliders in ysaid slots, said sliders carrying letters denoting one set of musical characters on one side, and letters denoting another set of'musical characters on the other side.

JOSEPH HENRY MOORE, sR. Witnesses:

VVVILLIBALD TRINKs, JULIA C. ARNOLD.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner lof Patents, Washington, D. G. 

